gauzy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.16 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
tinged with tenderness and warmth; dewy-eyed, romantic
Example Sentences
- "But first I took up Ayesha's kirtle and the gauzy scarf with which she had been wont to hide her dazzling loveliness from the eyes of men, and, averting my head so that I might not look upon it, covered up that dreadful relic of the glorious dead, that shocking epitome of human beauty and human life."
- "The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds."
- "Were she but the daring equestrienne jumping through the flaming hoops, little it would matter to her if her gauzy skirts did catch."
- "Or perhaps something darker—a raw hunger, a blind ambition wrapped in the gauzy language of service?"
- "2003: Although the books are scored in different keys—Clinton’s generally attempts to be gauzy and warm, Blumenthal’s is edgy and cold—their underlying refrain is the same. — The New Yorker, 14 July 2003"
Etymology
Etymology tree English gauze Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English gauzy From gauze + -y.